Speak out against the green machine and decades of service vanish in a puff of smoke.
Cowboy State Daily (6/14/23) reports: "Tesla CEO Elon Musk was once hailed as an innovator who was going to end humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels. Driving a Tesla electric vehicle was the ultimate status symbol for the climate-conscious environmentalists who could afford one. Now, the company has a lower rating on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) scale — a measure of a company’s commitment to progressive values — than a major tobacco company. This 'shows how the woke leftwing mob is using ESG scores to exert control over our entire society in an enormously negative way,' Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray told Cowboy State Daily. After Musk bought Twitter and demonstrated a commitment to making it a free-speech platform, he’s fallen out of disfavor with the progressive left...Alex Stevens, manager of policy and communications for the Institute of Energy Research, told Cowboy State Daily that Musk is a difficult person to pin down politically. Despite competing effectively in the electric vehicle space, he’s been an outspoken critic of ESG, calling it a 'scam.' The difference in ratings between tobacco companies and Tesla, Stevens said, shows he’s right. 'I think this highlights the fact that the ‘social’ element of ESG is often more about promoting current progressive social fads than it is about developing objective metrics to determine how well companies are serving some vague notion of the common good,' Stevens said. Altria has had well-publicized campaigns to push for diversity on the corporate boards of its companies, as well as a number of social justice initiatives. "
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"The systemic opposition of the locals to massive solar arrays and wind farms has created a new class of environmentalists. They live in and support greenery over government machining their living space. In contrast, the Washington, D.C. ‘environmentalists’ lobby and push from their concrete jungle. Going green and private property rights are aligned against Big Brother.”
–Robert L. Bradley, Jr., IER
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